TY - GEN
T1 - A haptic-enabled simulator for cricothyroidotomy
AU - Liu, Alan
AU - Bhasin, Yogendra
AU - Bowyer, Mark
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Cricothyroidotomy is an emergency procedure that is performed when the patient's airway is blocked, and less invasive attempts to clear it have failed. Cricothyroidotomy has been identified as an essential skill for military readiness. This training is relevant to more than 40,000 U.S. military medics, and thousands of civilian health care providers. Current training methods use animals, cadavers and plastic mannequins. Animal models do not have the correct anatomy. Cadavers do not have the correct physiology. Mannequins do not adequately cover the full range of anatomical variations. In this paper, we describe our effort to build a computerbased cricothyroidotomy simulator to address these problems.
AB - Cricothyroidotomy is an emergency procedure that is performed when the patient's airway is blocked, and less invasive attempts to clear it have failed. Cricothyroidotomy has been identified as an essential skill for military readiness. This training is relevant to more than 40,000 U.S. military medics, and thousands of civilian health care providers. Current training methods use animals, cadavers and plastic mannequins. Animal models do not have the correct anatomy. Cadavers do not have the correct physiology. Mannequins do not adequately cover the full range of anatomical variations. In this paper, we describe our effort to build a computerbased cricothyroidotomy simulator to address these problems.
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M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 15718750
AN - SCOPUS:23844474161
SN - 1586034987
SN - 9781586034986
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 308
EP - 313
BT - Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 13th Annual Conference on Medicine Meets Virtual Reality: The Magical Next Becomes the Medical Now, MMVR 2005
Y2 - 26 January 2005 through 29 January 2005
ER -